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Advance and Retreat
Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
John Bell Hood (1831 1879) , a native of Kentucky, fought for the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies is his memoirs, in which he describes some of the war's most famous battles.
by David L. Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Early civilizations, Native Americans, the English colonies, slavery, the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights begin the journey and lay the foundation for the United States of today. The Handy American History Answer Book takes a walk through the economic,...
Pen and Ink Witchcraft
Treaties and Treaty Making in American Indian History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas,...
The Settlers' Empire
Colonialism and State Formation in America's Old Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion,...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale of Louisiana") was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million francs (11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth...
by Manly Wade Wellman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
At last Wade Hampton—Grand Seigneur, Southern planter of vast acres, Confederate general, superb cavalry commander, Governor and United States Senator—reaches his full stature in an authoritative, life-size biography. Manly Wade Wellman has found a many-sided subject for his first venture into...
Cutting The Wire
Gaming Prohibition And The Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
**The story of the Wire Act and how Robert Kennedy’s crusade against the Mob is creating a new generation of Internet gaming outlaws.**Gambling has been part of American life since long before the existence of the nation, but Americans have always been ambivalent about it. What David Schwartz calls...
American Slavery As It Is
Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Compiled by a prominent abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, American Slavery As It Is combines information taken from witnesses, and from active and former slave owners, to generate a condemnation of slavery from both those who observed it and those who perpetuated it. The narrative describes the appalling...
From Wealth to Power
The Unusual Origins of America's World Role
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 1999
What turns rich nations into great powers? How do wealthy countries begin extending their influence abroad? These questions are vital to understanding one of the most important sources of instability in international politics: the emergence of a new power. In From Wealth to Power, Fareed Zakaria seeks...
Outside In
The Transnational Circuitry of US History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Outside In presents the newest scholarship that narrates and explains the history of the United States as part of a networked transnational past. This work tells the stories of Americans who inhabited the border-crossing circuitry of people, ideas, and institutions that have made the modern world...
The Business of Empire
United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on a wide range of...
by William Nester
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
From 1789 to 1800, the Federalist and Republican parties held opposing visions for America’s future. Led by Alexander Hamilton, the Federalists sought to establish a strong central government that would lead an American commercial, financial, technological, industrial, and military revolution, and...
Across the Waves
How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
In 1931, the United States and France embarked on a broadcasting partnership built around radio. Over time, the transatlantic sonic alliance came to personify and to shape American-French relations in an era of increased global media production and distribution. Drawing on a broad range of American...
by Jeffrey T. Richelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2007
Spying on the Bomb is an "engrossing" (Wall Street Journal) global history of the American-led effort to spy on every nation with nuclear ambitions.
A global history of U.S. nuclear espionage from its World War II origins to twenty-first century threats from rogue states. For more...